Bradford, Rams offense find groove in second preseason game

Posted by Evan Silva on August 18, 2012, 9:20 PM EDT

AP

The St. Louis Rams’ first-team offense sputtered in their preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts, but quarterback Sam Bradford was much sharper in Saturday night’s second exhibition game against Kansas City.

We viewed the game on NFL.com’s preseason live package. Bang it here for your own.

Bradford opened the game with back-to-back touchdown drives, connecting with tight end Lance Kendricks for a 23-yard score on the first and slot receiver Danny Amendola from eight yards out on the second. Amendola made a nice bodily adjustment to secure his touchdown in Chiefs cornerback Javier Arenas’ coverage. Courtesy of TurfShowTimes.com, a snapshot of Amendola’s catch can be found here.

Running back Steven Jackson continued to play effectively and efficiently, rushing seven times for 49 yards against Kansas City.

Defensively, rookie cornerback Janoris Jenkins made the play of the game on a strip of Chiefs wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin, causing Baldwin to fumble. The ball was recovered by Rams safety Craig Dahl, helping to set up the TD to Amendola.

Through two preseason games, Bradford is 13-of-18 (72.2 percent) for 159 yards, two touchdowns, and no interceptions. Bradford has a YPA of 8.83, and he has not yet been sacked.

Chiefs defense has to get off to a better start in the regular season than they did tonight. They got caught with their pants down. They made a good stop against the Rams starters later on, but they still looked bad overall.

Sans Baldwin fumble, the Chiefs starting offense looked pretty good. Cassel continues to look comfortable and the offensive line is still playing very well. Charles looked great, as did Hillis.

Once Bowe gets back up to speed, he’ll get all the slants, not Baldwin. Bowe doesn’t fumble those.

All I wanna know is where is the story about Peyton Manning throwing 2 int’s & broncos offense looking like donkey sh**t! Media doesn’t wanna say anything that’s negative when it comes to manning now do they?

Now We all know why Stanzi never go in last year. That guy sucks, is Palko still available?. Pioli better shut his mouth about how everything is so much smoother. If KC plays like they did tonight we’re looking at a 6-10 team, at best. Go ahead and cut Areanas, im tired of watching him get beat and doing nothing in the return game.

Jbaxt calm down its just preseason if every game was so serious even GB would be a lil worried after getting spanked by the browns. I do agree about arenas though he definitely needs to step up his game

Rams are in for a reality check come week one when they play Detroit.
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interesting…

considering the Lions will be with their 3rd string RB since Best(concussions) and Leshoure(suspended) are both out.. Fairley is out with his suspension, what about Delmas? he’s the starting safety and he’s hurt too right?

Corner wise? Eric wright = gone. aaron berry = cut.

Yea homer or not, it’s hard not to start Bradford against that talent lacking defense

Chiefs defense has to get off to a better start in the regular season than they did tonight.
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Slickster says that’s the best defense in the West, and it’s not even close. He could learn something from yelix, if he wasn’t such a clown.